I have a question about Prevent file corruption problems:

Since defrag was mentioned, this is where I thought I should post. I have noticed a huge performance drop suddenly and thought I might defrag. When I try my computer hangs and requires a reset button reboot. I replaced the defrag.exe file hoping that was the problem. No luck. Tried an old version (6.0) of Norton under DOS. Same results. Any thoughts?

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It could be that you have something locking the drive. Maybe as you are having this problem under DOS, it is something loaded in config.sys or autoexec.bat. Try booting up in safe mode and trying defrag. If this fails, try booting with a boot disk then using the DOS version. If either thing works, then you need to find out what is causing the problem by a bit of detective work (can't help you there...)


On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 11:40 am, phil bourassa wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent
>file corruption problems:

>Since defrag was mentioned, this is where I thought I should post. I have noticed
>a huge performance drop suddenly and thought I might defrag. When I try my computer
>hangs and requires a reset button reboot. I replaced the defrag.exe file hoping that
>was the problem. No luck. Tried an old version (6.0) of Norton under DOS. Same results.
>Any thoughts?
>

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have you tried running scandisk?

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Yes. Under DOS. No errors. Under Windows, it hangs when it begins checking the FAT.


On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 12:28 pm, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote:
>have you tried running scandisk?

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if derfag is messing up and you file corution it is time to look for a new hard drive 
once you start getting errors from the hard drive it is time to keep the gas cap 
and get a new one

the only errors that are ok is lost chains as long as  when you check it out it equals 
the other







On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 11:40 am, phil bourassa wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent 
>file corruption problems:

>Since defrag was mentioned, this is where I thought I should post. I have noticed 
>a huge performance drop suddenly and thought I might defrag. When I try my computer 
>hangs and requires a reset button reboot. I replaced the defrag.exe file hoping 
that 
>was the problem. No luck. Tried an old version (6.0) of Norton under DOS. Same results. 
>Any thoughts?
>

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On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 11:40 am, phil bourassa wrote:
>I have a question about Prevent
>file corruption problems:

>Since defrag was mentioned, this is where I thought I should post. I have noticed
>a huge performance drop suddenly and thought I might defrag. When I try my computer
>hangs and requires a reset button reboot. I replaced the defrag.exe file hoping that
>was the problem. No luck. Tried an old version (6.0) of Norton under DOS. Same results.
>Any thoughts?
> Give more info, there's not much to go on here.

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I had similar problems getting lots of "illegal operation" messages, constant rebooting and defrag didn't defrag untill I replaced my RAM mem cards.


On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 3:04 pm, Wacky wrote:
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